Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

US studio Inaba Williams Architects has created two mirrored houses with courtyards in Santa Monica , California that are clad in white stucco and have net-zero energy use, according to the studio. The white of the exterior continues inside A bedroom suite, garage, and a secluded zen garden hold the southern edge of the site.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Named the JArzm house – using the first initial of each family member – the home is set into a 60-foot slope in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood. John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK) completed the house – and 540-square foot (50-square metre) accessory dwelling unit (ADU) – in November 2021.

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Deezen

MAY 16, 2024

Called Zilker Studios, the structure includes 110 affordable apartments operated by local housing organisation Foundation Communities. The mid-rise housing complex consists of a long volume on a narrow site, flanked by outdoor public spaces with a breezeway and an open-air staircase on the far end. The photography is by Casey Dunn.

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The program for the house is simple: a three-bedroom, two-bath house with space for playing music and drawing for a musician and an architect. Have one to share? Post it here.

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This totally electric “Net Zero” 100% affordable housing project is certified LEED Platinum and has an astounding pEUI of 6.6, Photo © Brooks + Scarpa More than any other multi-dwelling housing, courtyard apartments, “make you feel like you belong to a place.” 4850 sqm), 49 units (0.57 acres) 86du/acre.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2022

They carved away parts of the housing block – including a sizable cut in the main facade – to create a sense of openness and to connect the building to its surroundings. "11 The building has a white exterior that helps enhance natural light and reduce heat gain – the latter being an important consideration given the area's hot climate.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Bay Area studio David Baker Architects has completed 145 units of social housing using modular construction and a weathering steel facade in San Francisco , California. Modules make up the social housing in San Francisco. The six-storey project stacks 87 two-unit boxes. The raked facade is clad in weathering steel.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Contemporary House India by Robert Gregory, with photographs by Edmund Sumner Thames & Hudson , November 2021 Hardcover | 9-1/4 x 11-3/4 inches | 272 pages | 355 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9780500021330 | $75.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : India has a long, diverse history of remarkable architecture.

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Deezen

JULY 31, 2022

For the exterior walls, the team used a mix of concrete and cypress boards that were charred using the ancient Japanese technique of Shou Sugi Ban , helping bolster the wood's resistance to insects and rot. Three additional bedrooms are located upstairs, including one housed in a volume that cantilevers 15 feet (4.6

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aasarchitecture

MAY 10, 2023

OOIIO Architecture completes a new singular residential project in Toledo, to build a spectacular house in the well-known neighbourhood of Valparaíso. In OOIIO Architecture, upon detecting this urban and social particularity of the city, we decided to start from the “lookout” concept for the project of this design house in Toledo.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Jun Mitsui & Associates and Pelli Clarke & Partners have converted a grocery store into a sake brewery The site contains three buildings – the brewery, housed in the shell of a former Stop & Shop grocery store, a small rice polishing building and a wastewater treatment facility.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Architect Tsukasa Ono designed this housing project on Japan 's Yakushima island to have a positive impact on its natural setting, using a "regenerative" approach to improve the soil by promoting the growth of mycelium and bacteria. Tsukasa Ono designed a co-operative housing project in Japan.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

At the ground floor are restaurants, retail, offices and an entrance to the courtyard "The window pattern is based on the maximum allowable percentage of opening along the exterior, broken up into a staggered, offset and repeated pattern around the middle levels of the building," said the studio.

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The Spaces

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Behind this hillside former home’s unassuming, whitewashed exterior lies a treasure trove of vintage furniture and finds assembled by owner Mikkel Kristensen – a Danish photographer and former fashion brand owner who’s transformed the property into an eight-bedroom boutique hotel, Marqí.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2023

bath house out of two volumes with floor-to-ceiling glazed ends that float above the landscape. The house is clad in Western Red Cedar Select that references the landscape and works to reduce construction waste by using 14-foot (4.2-metre) metre) boards that extend from the base of the exterior wall to the parapet without cuts.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The studio’s stone walls conceal a robust steel structure, fully insulated yet incorporating pockets into which both the protective plank shutters and European engineered glass sliders retract.

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

The visitor centre houses a display space and auditorium Inside, the wood-lined auditorium and visitor facilities sit at the centre of the space behind poured concrete walls that mirror the appearance of the exterior. Project credits: Architect: Kaan Architecten Landscape designer: Karres + Brands landschapsarchitecten B.V.,

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Composed of three distinct buildings – a main house, guesthouse and writer's studio – the project was designed for a California-based couple who manage an independent record label. Stretching horizontally from east to west, the main house is rectangular in plan yet more sculptural in form.

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2023

The main house sits within this meadow, overlooking a shallow bay. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson clad the house in Douglas fir and cedar. Photo is by Benjamin Benschneider The building is located uphill from the primary house – close enough to feel connected but far enough away to offer privacy.

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e-architect

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Sage Gardens Housing, Sacramento, Californian Real Estate, CA Home, USA Architecture Photos. Sage Gardens Housing in Sacramento. Sage Gardens Housing, CA. Sage Gardens Housing in Sacramento, California – Building Information. Structural Engineers: Labib Funk + Associates. Nov 18, 2022. Client: CCH.

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Deezen

APRIL 18, 2022

White siding and a curvy aluminium screen make up the exterior of a residential building in Los Angeles designed by American firm Brooks + Scarpa. Magnolia Apartments is a new model of mixed-use housing that includes both workforce and market-rate housing," the team said, noting that many of the tenants use public transit and don't own a car.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Completed in April 2022 for Pennsylvania State University Behrend, the Federal House Renovation & Addition project saw the conversion of the oldest brick building in the Harborcreek Township into a modern educational facility. GBBN preserved and expanded a 19th-century house into an educational facility.

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Deezen

AUGUST 12, 2022

The low-lying building is located just south of Iowa City's downtown district, near a recreational area and a future housing development. Totalling 99,294 square feet (9,225 square metres), the facility houses the city's street and water departments, including all of their equipment and vehicles. MEP engineer: Modus.

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aasarchitecture

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

More than any other multi-dwelling housing, courtyard apartments, “make you feel like you belong to a place.” This much needed affordable housing provides poor and disadvantaged populations housing in an affluent area of town where low-wage workers are critical but unable to afford to live. Photo © Jeff Durkin.

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2023

The studio, which specializes in projects along Florida's vast coastline dedicated to "environmental modernism", completed the expansive, 8,500-square foot (2,590-square meter) house – known as the Angel Oaks Residence – in 2021. Civil engineer: Jorge G. Angel Oaks Residence is located in Miami The five-bedroom, 7.5-bathroom

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In 2019 the Tennessee Housing Development Agency reported that over45% of Nashville, renters are housing cost-burdened: spending more than 30% of their income on housing-related expenses. With rents rising15% in the past year alone and a projected 50,000-unit deficit by 2030, the city’s housing crisis shows no signs of slowing.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The main volume of the 3,632-square-foot house is oriented along an east-west axis, which allows the living spaces to take full advantage of southern light, while its asymmetrically gabled roof orients the interiors toward the primary views. The exterior is clad in oxidized corrugated and perforated steel and Siberian larch.

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aasarchitecture

JULY 7, 2023

Strategically placed windows, purposeful exterior circulation and units that wrap the outer-most edges, orient the 67 low-income apartments to social spaces that are spatially apart, yet visually connected to each other thru the social spaces at the center of the complex of buildings. acres) 67 units = 37 units/acre Total Cost: $28.4

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Deezen

MAY 2, 2022

We felt it was important to rethink the idea of a weekend house from the environmental, social, economic and aesthetic commitment to provide only what is necessary," said Práctica Arquitectura, an office based in Monterrey. The architects also included an exterior fire pit a few steps away from the house, which is accessed via a footpath.

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aasarchitecture

JANUARY 22, 2024

Responding to site topography and climatic influences of sun and prevailing breezes, the steel-framed building houses open-air fermentation spaces that foster cross-ventilation, utilize night cooling, and provide well-lit working environments with ample natural daylight.

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e-architect

JUNE 28, 2023

On the building exterior, a new canopy brings storefront, loading areas, and elevator access bays into a singular form and organization. Taken together, the interior and exterior interventions redefine the space and the building’s identity as a complete whole.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 24, 2022

A family home unites the demands of an extensive program with hierarchy, plasticity, natural light, views, blurring of interior/exterior space and a unique connection to the natural landscape. Civil Engineer: Coterra Engineering. Structural Engineer: RSE Associates. Mechanical Engineer: Franklin Engineering.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Three simple, bow-shaped structures were placed to its southeast to house students. These buildings are five storeys tall and have a central core set back from the wood-clad exterior, with large window boxes on each end that create sheltered patios on the second storey.

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e-architect

OCTOBER 18, 2023

photo © Patrick Price The building’s exterior presents two distinct characters of expression, inspired by the unique geological and geographical conditions of its Southern California seaside context. Civil Engineer: Stantec Consulting Services, Inc. Site Area: 159,000 SFT (14,771.5 Floor Area: 90,000 SFT (8,361.2

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Deezen

JUNE 9, 2023

Encompassing 281,000 square feet (26,106 square metres), the building houses a range of research institutes focused on topics such as food, water, energy and climate change. The exterior is hard and protective, while in the interior courtyard, an abundance of light highlights its transparency and glazed openings."

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2022

British architecture firm Adjaye Associates has designed a collection of pigmented-concrete pavilions in Winter Park, Florida , to house a library and an events centre. The pavilions were designed as square and rectangular buildings with exterior walls that are angled inwards at their base. hectares) Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Deezen

AUGUST 21, 2023

The 110-acre (44-hectare) site is now being converted into a multi-use complex with housing, research facilities, embassies and other buildings. One of the buildings is a brutalist 1950s volume "As part of this important historic site, the buildings are protected and any change to the exterior is carefully reviewed."

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